I will launch the year by starting the new Alkaline diet.  Speaking of ‘launch’ I haven’t eaten a 3.6 volt battery in at least a week. ***   To prove how ‘on trend’ I am, I will invest in a pair of culottes. I will cover them in bread crumbs and fry them in oil […] Read more…

‘You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, and Donner and Blitzen, But what do you recall about the most famous reindeer of all?’ Please forgive the paraphrasing, but if you’re like me, you probably don’t know much about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, that beloved Christmas icon.  So I did […] Read more…

Are you feeling discriminated against?  No problem. Start a protest group. It’s the 2017 thing to do. Find somebody else in the same leaky boat, come up with an identifying adjective, add a hyphen with the word “American” after it — and you’re an instant lobby. So let’s hear it for Shorto-Americans, an under-sung, under-appreciated, […] Read more…